The late Victorian Navy : the pre-dreadnought era and the origins of the First World War / Roger Parkinson.

In purely naval terms, the period from 1889 to 1906 is often referred to (and indeed passed over) as the 'pre-Dreadnought era', merely a prelude to the lead-up to the First World War, and thus of relatively little importance; it has therefore received little consideration from historians,...

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